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Some Cat

by John Cole|  February 13, 201712:59 pm| 70 Comments

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RIP, Mishka-Roo:

My deepest condolences to longtime readers Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy for the loss of their loved one. I hate this.

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 13, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Oh no! Bestest thoughts to Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy in their time of mourning.

  2. 2.

    Big Ole Hound

    February 13, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    So sorry… hard to lose a longtime companion.

  3. 3.

    JustRuss

    February 13, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    I had a tux-cat like that for 18 years. I still miss her, she was very special. Condolences to RR and Grumpy.

  4. 4.

    Big R

    February 13, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    Mishka-Roo, z”l.

  5. 5.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 13, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    There’s too much of this going on around here. My deepest condolences to Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy. They leave such big paw prints on our hearts. ?

  6. 6.

    Manyakitty

    February 13, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    What sad news. Peace and love.

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    February 13, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    I am so sorry for the loss of another Balloon Juice family member. It’s so hard.

  8. 8.

    PaulW

    February 13, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    HUG ALL KITTEHS

  9. 9.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 13, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Al Jarreau, and now Mishka-Roo.

    Yet Dick Cheney is still animated.

    TANJ.

  10. 10.

    Humboldtblue

    February 13, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    Bye, Misha.

  11. 11.

    SFAW

    February 13, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    Such a beautiful kitty.
    So sorry to hear the news.

  12. 12.

    Miss Bianca

    February 13, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    Tuxies are such lovely cats. My condolences to Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy.

  13. 13.

    Riley's Enabler

    February 13, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    Sending heartfelt sympathy to Ronnie Roo and Grumpy. I’m so sorry.

  14. 14.

    MomSense

    February 13, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    So sorry about Mishka Roo. Condolences to you Ronnieroo and Grumpy.

  15. 15.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 13, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    {{ }} to Rr and GCM. Mishka was a beautiful kitteh!

  16. 16.

    trollhattan

    February 13, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    Awwww, sorry about your furry friend. :-(

  17. 17.

    ruemara

    February 13, 2017 at 1:26 pm

    Big hugs and support to Ronnie-Roo & Grumpy. My deepest condolences on the passage of Mishka-Roo.

  18. 18.

    debit

    February 13, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    I am so sorry.

  19. 19.

    The Moar You Know

    February 13, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Any day could be your last. So treat everyone accordingly, including your kitties and doggies.

    My dog didn’t want to get up this morning, he had a tiring, fun weekend. So I just let him put his head on my arm and sleep in for ten minutes before we went out. I was ten minutes late to work. Best ten minutes of my day.

    Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy, I am truly sorry. People say you get over it, but I disagree. I think you just learn to live with it. Scars are healing, but they are still scars.

  20. 20.

    rikyrah

    February 13, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    RIP????

  21. 21.

    planetpundit

    February 13, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    Best wishes losing such a wonderful lil friend is always so hard.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 13, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Mishka-Roo was a lovely kitteh. I’m so sorry for your loss, RR and GCM.

  23. 23.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    February 13, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    Rest in peace, little Mishka Roo, and flights of angels purr thee to thy rest.

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    February 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    Oh no! At least Mishka had a good life with lots of love, which is what most of us want out of life. Condolences.

  25. 25.

    Woodrowfan

    February 13, 2017 at 1:39 pm

    I am so sorry, what a sweetie…

  26. 26.

    HRA

    February 13, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    My sincere condolences to Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy.

  27. 27.

    middlelee

    February 13, 2017 at 1:48 pm

    I’m so sorry for Mishka’s passing. We hold you in our hearts.

  28. 28.

    Nicole

    February 13, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    I’m so sorry. What a beauty.

    My six-year-old downstairs neighbor’s cat had to be put to sleep last week. He’s being brave, but he’s pretty crushed- he picked her out from the shelter as a kitten, just about two years ago. She was tiny, and stayed tiny, and it turned out she stayed tiny because she was suffering from a pretty rare blood disorder which eventually was too much for her. I feel for him. All our pets are beloved, but I think there’s a special place for the first one. My schnauzer died 30 years ago but I still sometimes dream about her.

  29. 29.

    J R in WV

    February 13, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    So sorry for your loss, folks. Mishka was a sweet looking beautiful kitty, and I know she knew she was loved and cared for. I love our cats all the time, and will make up to them especially well tonight…

    Thanks for passing the word, John.

  30. 30.

    laura

    February 13, 2017 at 1:53 pm

    Ronnie Roo and Grumpy please accept condolences on the loss of your charming Tuxedo Cat. The loss of our friends never goes away, we just come to cope with the loss as the sharp edges dull just enough to bear.
    And thanks to The Moar you Know for the simple truth of what’s important in our day by daying.

  31. 31.

    Original Lee

    February 13, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    So sorry to hear about Mishka-Roo. Deepest condolences to Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy. We had to put our Lucky Dog to sleep last week (liver cancer – at least it was fast). I think this has been a bad year for pets.

  32. 32.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 13, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    Sorry for your loss. But it’s amusing that depending on how you transliterate and pronounce, “Mishka” could be the diminutive word for “mouse” in several Slavic languages. Having a cat named “mouse” is kind of neat.

  33. 33.

    Immanentize

    February 13, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    Sweet Kitty. This another occasion to, as my Dad used to say,: “save your tears for the living.” It is so hard to be left behind.

  34. 34.

    Mike in NC

    February 13, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    Condolences.

  35. 35.

    hovercraft

    February 13, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Sorry for your loss, Mishka-Roo was a beautiful kitty. Virtual hug.

  36. 36.

    Calming Influence

    February 13, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Why Did You Go
    E.E. Cummings

    why did you go
    little fourpaws?
    you forgot to shut
    your big eyes.

    where did you go?
    like little kittens
    are all the leaves
    which open in the rain.

    little kittens
    who are called spring,
    is what we stroke
    maybe asleep?

    do you know? or maybe
    did something go away
    ever so quietly
    when we weren’t looking.

    Sincere condolences.

  37. 37.

    Tom Levenson

    February 13, 2017 at 2:12 pm

    So sorry to hear this.

  38. 38.

    Ruckus

    February 13, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    @The Moar You Know:
    I think you just learn to live with it. Hopefully you do. As you get older and the news comes more often it can be a bit more difficult. And one tends to think a bit more of one’s own which doesn’t always help.
    But still, it is what it is.
    Condolences to Ronnie Roo and Grumpy on your loss.

  39. 39.

    raven

    February 13, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    We who choose to surround ourselves
    with lives even more temporary than our
    own, live within a fragile circle;
    easily and often breached.
    Unable to accept its awful gaps,
    we would still live no other way.
    We cherish memory as the only
    certain immortality, never fully
    understanding the necessary plan.
    — Irving Townsend

  40. 40.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    February 13, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    Aw, heck. Poor kitty, and poor people-who-love-the-kitty!

    Hugs and comfort offered (you know, in a discreet; you don’t know who the hell I am, but I do sympathize; sort of manner).

  41. 41.

    eclare

    February 13, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    So sorry to hear about your kitty.

  42. 42.

    Suffragete City elftx

    February 13, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    Very sorry for your loss RR and Grumpy.
    I’d had a dream with all my former kitties in it a month before we ‘found’ our Shadow. I still miss them.

  43. 43.

    BubbaDave

    February 13, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    Deepest sympathy, RR and Grumpy.

  44. 44.

    Cckids

    February 13, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    My sympathies, I’m sorry for your loss.

  45. 45.

    hedgehog the occasional commenter

    February 13, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    Sympathies and love to RR and Grumpy. So sorry for your loss.

  46. 46.

    WereBear

    February 13, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    So sorry to hear about Mishka-Roo. Never easy.

  47. 47.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 13, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy – Thanks for giving Miska-Roo a good life

  48. 48.

    sherparick

    February 13, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    A good cat. So sorry for the pain of her loss.

  49. 49.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    Sad news. Strength and courage to kitty’s loved ones; it never gets any easier.

  50. 50.

    Drunkenhausfrau

    February 13, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    So sorry. It’s so hard to lose them, but they bring such love, we can’t resist them.

  51. 51.

    Aleta

    February 13, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    I’m very sorry for your loss.

    My ones who are gone even for years now are still holding on to their territory in my heart.

  52. 52.

    sharl

    February 13, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    Fairwell Mishka-Roo, and praise be to the kitty’s lifelong servants Ronnie-Roo and Grumpy.

  53. 53.

    RoonieRoo

    February 13, 2017 at 3:58 pm

    Thank you so much Cole. I needed this and I appreciate the BJ community so much. My baby was 18 years old and both Grumpy and I are really struggling with his loss. But seeing all this love from the BJ community and Cole has been so good for my aching heart.

  54. 54.

    J R in WV

    February 13, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    We’re old, and have been saving cats and dogs for a long time now. I can name all the dogs, not so many of them. I tried to name all the cats, and made it all the way. We don’t name our critters quickly, we wait for them to reveal a little about their self first.

    So there were a few cats that didn’t make it that far. Not many, and I can count them, and see them in my mind’s eye easily. 6 all told in 45 years of rescue work. But all of them knew they were home, safe and sound, cared for, snuggled if they would let us. Nearly 20 cats all told, counting the two varmits we have right now.

    Thanks for the e e cummings poem, it was very appropriate. Short and both sweet and sad. He could do a lot with just a few words. I forget the famous guy who wrote a long letter to a friend, then apologized, for the length, saying he was sorry, but he just didn’t have time to write a short one.

    I’ll stop now. ETA: I kinda have to, it’s hard to type with a cat on your shoulder purring, and hanging on with those oh so sharp toenails.

  55. 55.

    Pogonip

    February 13, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    Sorry to hear your cat died! The house always seems so empty after a pet dies.

  56. 56.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    February 13, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    This was a rough one. Mishka isn’t the first cat we’ve lost, but the circumstances around his adoption were special, and he held a unique place in the house. He was a diva like all cats, but in such a way that was more endearing than off-putting. He had a truly unique personality, and we’ve never been able to form a bond with the other cats the way we did with him.

    Thanks for all the kind thoughts.

  57. 57.

    Mike R

    February 13, 2017 at 4:29 pm

    Very sorry, it is really sad when a special friend passes on. My deepest sympathies.

  58. 58.

    Rob Lll

    February 13, 2017 at 4:38 pm

    So sorry to hear this. My condolences to both of you.

  59. 59.

    Miss Bianca

    February 13, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    @Grumpy Code Monkey: @RoonieRoo: That picture shows such a sweet little face. It’s so sad when you’ve had a kitty that long.

  60. 60.

    Patricia Kayden

    February 13, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    I know that I am late but so sorry for this loss of Mishka-Roo . She was a true beauty.

  61. 61.

    HeidiMom

    February 13, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    So sorry to hear of your loss. She was a beautiful kitty — they all are.

  62. 62.

    SWMBO

    February 13, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    @RoonieRoo: Peace and comfort to all the survivors.

  63. 63.

    Ann Marie

    February 13, 2017 at 6:09 pm

    I’m so sorry for your loss.

  64. 64.

    Greenergood

    February 13, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    @RoonieRoo: Sorry you have lost your Mishka – it’s so hard, and it’s hard to explain to people who don’t have an animal companion just how bereft you can feel – they’ll be like ‘get over it, it’s not a child, etc.’ They haven’t got a clue – I hope that soon, but only when you’re ready, that you will fill the cat-soul gap in your lives with another deserving rescue kitteh. Once a home has had a kitteh, it’s very hard not to always have one – it’s part of the soul of your home. Condolences … :-(

  65. 65.

    Shalimar

    February 13, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    Our last cat, Mickey, died 4 hours ago at 14 years old. Maybe I will get another one now, but he was one of four just a couple years ago and I haven’t replaced any of the others as they have passed.

  66. 66.

    Kristine

    February 13, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    Such a sweet photo of Mishka. I am so sorry.

    Shalimar, condolences as well.

  67. 67.

    satby

    February 13, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @Original Lee: @RoonieRoo: @Grumpy Code Monkey: @Shalimar: deepest condolences to you all! You gave them love, a safe home, full bellies, cuddles and scritches. To our furkids, that’s heaven on earth. You gave them their heaven… I hope you can get a bit of comfort in that.

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 13, 2017 at 11:06 pm

    @Shalimar:

    Condolences on your loss.

  69. 69.

    No One You Know

    February 13, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    @Grumpy Code Monkey: I’m tearing up…I feel very sad for this. I have a senior cat who is quite ill, myself.

    Love and hugs to you and yours, and may there ever be a pawprint in your heart.

    (Cries, very quietly)

  70. 70.

    Gemina13

    February 14, 2017 at 12:14 am

    I’m so sorry for your loss of Mishka-Roo. He was a beautiful tuxie, and he sounds like he was an engaging, loving companion.

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